There is a new article on Luminous Landscape written by Alain Briot that I thought was very interesting and relevent to DPC.
//www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/audiences.shtml
"We create art, meaning we write, create photographs, paintings, sculptures, musical compositions, you name it, because we want a response. We create art because we want to start a dialogue. A response from whom? A dialogue with whom? A response and a dialogue with other people. A response and a dialogue with an audience interested in what we do. To say that we are selling out the minute we are participating in this fundamental aspect of art is reducing the purpose of the art to a minimum. It is reducing the role of the artist to operating in a vacuum and living in an environment in which the artist doesn̢۪t let anyone come in until this artist approves of their visit and has checked and rechecked their credentials, identity and what not. It is creating an environment of distrust and suspicion. It is, eventually, defeating the purpose of art which is to let people discover a work of art uninvited, simply because they like this work, or are curious about it, and want to experience it personally."
By Alain Briot from article linked above |
